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Lancaster County School District officials placed South Middle School on lockdown at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office was looking for a suspect in the area of Springdale Road, school officials said, and because of the proximity to South Middle, officials locked down the school.

Another Kershaw school fire caused students to miss half a day of school on Monday, causing minimal damage due to the quick work of local firefighters.
The small blaze began in a Kershaw Elementary School classroom when an air conditioning unit attached to the outside wall caught fire, spreading smoke to other classrooms.
Only the first classroom and an adjacent one suffered smoke or fire damage, and no one was injured. Students were dismissed at 12:30 p.m. Monday, but were able to return to classes as usual Tuesday.

Two more teens have been arrested in last Thursday’s fatal Kershaw shooting, bringing to three the total number charged in the case.
Ka’Darius Aintwayn Kirkland, 19, and Brennan Jamil Patterson Jr., 17, have been charged with murder in the death of Vincent Barry Lambert Jr. and two counts of attempted murder, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.

Barry Faile has been named the state’s 2018 Sheriff of the Year by the S.C. Sheriffs’ Association.
Faile has been Lancaster County sheriff for nine years and has worked for the sheriff’s office since 1989, when he began his career as a patrol deputy. He worked his way up through the ranks, serving in every part of the department’s operation.
The award drew praise from other leaders in Lancaster’s law enforcement community.

It looks like a small residential tract in the northern end of the Panhandle will be rezoned as commercial, despite vocal objections from adjacent property owners, a 300-signature petition against it and a unanimous no vote by the county planning commission.
County council voted 6-1 to approve first reading of owner Linda Faulkner’s request to rezone the property at 9843 Calvin Hall Road. Council member Terry Graham cast the dissenting vote.

Downtown Lancaster is getting its first specialty-coffee shop in half a decade, as The Craft Stand broadens its usual offerings to include perkier brews starting Monday morning.
The Main Street craft-beer retailer and gathering spot will be serving coffee drinks from 7 until 11 a.m. Monday through Saturday.
“It will be basic in the beginning,” owner Brandy Geraghty said. “We will have drip and an espresso machine to make lattes and cappuccinos and I don’t know what else because I haven’t learned yet.”

KERSHAW – You’re eating at the 521 Filling Station on Hampton Street. Suddenly, you notice another customer with swept-back hair and thick sideburns wearing a ball cap.
For a split second, you make eye contact. When the man winks and smiles, you’re almost hypnotized and the wheels in your mind inexplicably turn….
“Hey, isn’t that Elvis?”
Relax. It’s not.
It’s just Travis Powell, and yes, he’s messing with you.

The May 10 Kershaw murder was a drug deal gone bad, authorities alleged Friday, announcing the arrest of the woman who was wounded in the double shooting.
Jody Linn Holt, 30, of Kershaw, was arrested at the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and unlawful neglect of a child.